Developing Telecoms | Triple-play in East Africa on the rise following Cisco & Wananchi Group deal

9 February 2012

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Triple-play in East Africa on the rise following Cisco & Wananchi Group deal

Thursday, 12 August 2010 11:18 | James Barton

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East Africa’s only triple-play operator, the Wananchi Group, has signed a contract for the purchase of network technology solutions and services from Cisco.

The Wananchi Group, which also operates VSAT services, will roll out the new services across nine countries in the East Africa region: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Ethiopia, Sudan and Zambia.

Under this agreement, Cisco and Wananchi Group will provide a number of innovative and competitive managed and hosted communications and collaboration services for the residential, corporate and government sectors.

The contract will also enable the Wananchi Group to deploy Cisco’s integrated end-to-end network technology solutions, encompassing Cisco’s Borderless Networks, collaboration and data center virtualization solutions, as their customer base expands and technology advances.

Mark Schneider, group chairman of the Wananchi Group, comments: “The entertainment market for both home and corporate customers in Africa, as a whole, continues to be reshaped in light of technological advancements and new industry partnerships…Cisco will help us to continuously deliver the necessary technology enhancements to our infrastructure to serve our ever-growing customer needs and remain at the forefront of delivering new and innovative services to our customers.”

Cisco has been selected as the Wananchi Group’s preferred supplier of the end-to-end infrastructure, encompassing access technologies (fibre and cable), the core Internet Protocol network, optical transport up to the video head-end, data center solutions, and multimedia set-top boxes.

The agreement represents an important milestone in Cisco’s Africa investment strategy and its goal to deliver advanced communication and collaboration services throughout the sub-Saharan African region.

Paul Mountford, Cisco’s president of emerging markets, notes: “This agreement with Wananchi is significant for Cisco’s business in Africa because it demonstrates our strong business partnership and consultancy capabilities beyond just being an end-to end network solutions technology provider. This is becoming increasingly important for our customers in Africa where we are witnessing major developments in the information, communications and technology landscape.”

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